“We equip. We train. We teach. We support.”

“We don’t come in and change the world,” says Social Work Dean Hope Haslam Straughan. “We come in and come alongside people. We equip. We train. We teach. We support.” Wheelock social work students and faculty talk about the ways they use their social work education in combination with the creative arts, youth justice and advocacy, tutoring, and many other areas of practice as a means to help people who might be struggling.